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Expert Directory
The following scholars, writers, and editors are available to members of the media to talk about their work in this area. Following is information about their background, special interests, and preferred manner of contact. Listed email addresses should be copied into an email client, replacing "at" with "@".
Charles K. Armstrong
Charles K. Armstrong is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University. He is the editor of Korean Society: Civil Soicety, Democracy, and the State.
Contact
Email: cra10 at columbia.edu
Phone: 212-854-1721
Robert L. Gallucci
Robert L. Gallucci is dean of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. A career civil servant in the Department of State, he led the team that negotiated the Agreed Framework and served as assistant secretary for political-military affairs and ambassador-at-large.
Contact
Publicity: Susan Soldavin, Publicity Manager; Jaime Fearer, Publicity & Exhibits Coordinator
Brookings Institution Press
Email: ssoldavin at brookings.edu; jfearer at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611; 202-536-3608
See also Daniel B. Poneman and Joel S. Wit , co-authors of Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis.
Stephan Haggard
Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego
Stephan Haggard received his PhD in political science from Berkeley in 1983, and taught at Harvard University from 1983 to 1991. He is the author of Pathways from the Periphery: the Political Economy of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries (1990), The Developing Countries and the Politics of Global Integration (1995) and The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (1995, with Robert Kaufman). He has written on the Asian financial crisis (The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis, 2000; Economic Crisis and Corporate Restructuring in Korea, 2003, coedited with Wonhyuk Lim and Euysung Kim), foreign direct investment in high-technology industries in the Asia-Pacific (From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Disk Drive Industry, with David McKendrick and Richard Doner, 2000) and on comparative presidentialism (Presidents, Parliaments and Policy, 2000, edited with Mathew McCubbins).
Contact
Publicist: Peter Barrett
Phone: 212.459.0600 x 7133
Email: pb2272 at columbia.edu
See also Marcus Noland, co-author of Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform.
Selig S. Harrison
Selig S. Harrison, director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy, is a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and director of the Century Foundation’s Project on the United States and the Future of Korea. He has specialized in South Asia and East Asia for fifty years as a journalist and scholar and is the author of six books on Asian affairs and U.S. relations with Asia, including Korean Endgame: A Strategy For Reunification and U.S. Disengagement, published by Princeton University Press in May 2002.
Contact
Web site: http://www.ciponline.org/asia/Seligbio.html
Email: sharrison at ciponline.org
Ralph C. Hassig
Ralph C. Hassig, a social psychologist, is a Washington-based consultant on Korean affairs and an adjunct associate professor of psychology at the University of Maryland University College.
Contact
Publicity: Susan Soldavin, Publicity Manager; Jaime Fearer, Publicity & Exhibits Coordinator
Brookings Institution Press
Email: ssoldavin at brookings.edu; jfearer at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611; 202-536-3608
See also Kongdan Oh, co-author of North Korea through the Looking Glass.
Samuel S. Kim
Samuel S. Kim (Ph.D., Columbia) is Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Senior Research Associate of the East Asian Institute, and Associate Director of the Center for Korean Research. He is author or editor of 15 books on East Asian international relations and world order studies, including most recently Korea’s Globalization and The Two Koreas in the World Community.
Contact
Email: ssk12 at columbia.edu
Suji Kwock Kim
Kim is a Korean American whose poetry explores war in her ancestral homeland and her place in the U. S. today.
Contact
Phone: 845-430-8916
Email: sujikwockkim at cs.com
Mitchell B. Lerner
Assistant professor of history, Ohio State University, Lerner is also a Fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs. His book The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy offers the first full analysis of the details and repercussions of this important crisis in international relations between the US and North Korea.
Contact
Email: lerner.26 at osu.edu
Marcus Noland
Marcus Noland is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics. He was a Senior Economist in the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, has served as an occasional consultant to organizations such as the World Bank and the National Intelligence Council, and has testified before the US Congress on numerous occasions.
Contact
Publicist:
Peter Barrett
Phone: 212.459.0600 x 7133
Email: pb2272 at columbia.edu
See also Stephan Haggard, co-author of Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform.
Kongdan Oh
Kongdan Oh, a Korean American, is a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and editor of the Asia Society's Korea Briefing, 1997-1999 (M. E. Sharpe and the Asia Society, 2000).
Contact
Publicity: Susan Soldavin, Publicity Manager; Jaime Fearer, Publicity & Exhibits Coordinator
Brookings Institution Press
Email: ssoldavin at brookings.edu; jfearer at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611; 202-536-3608
See also Ralph C. Hassig, co-author of North Korea through the Looking Glass.
Kevin O'Rourke
Professor emeritus of English literature at Kyunghee University, Seoul, Kevin O’Rourke is an Irish priest (Columban Fathers), who has lived in Korea since 1964. The first foreigner to receive a Ph.D in Korean literature in a Korean university (Yonsei University 1982), he has published many translations of classical and contemporary texts and many critical essays on Korean literature. His translation of Yi Munyol’s novella Our Twisted Hero has been published to critical acclaim in the US (Hyperion 2001).
Contact
Publicist: Allison Thomas
Email:
allison-thomas at uiowa.edu
Daniel B. Poneman
Daniel B. Poneman is a senior fellow with the Forum for International Policy and a principal in The Scowcroft Group. He served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, including nearly four years as special assistant to the President for nonproliferation.
Contact
Publicity: Susan Soldavin, Publicity Manager; Jaime Fearer, Publicity & Exhibits Coordinator
Brookings Institution Press
Email: ssoldavin at brookings.edu; jfearer at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611; 202-536-3608
See also Joel S. Wit and Robert L. Gallucci, co-authors of Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis.
H. K. Shin
Hyung K. Shin is professor of chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno.
Today, H. K. Shin is an internationally respected chemist, but in the pages of his memoir, Remembering Korea 1950, he carries us back to Korea during a pivotal moment in that country's history. It is a stirring monument to the survival of human decency and kindness in the midst of terror, cruelty, despair, and the destruction of a proud nation.
B.S. (1959), Ph.D. (1961), University of Utah; Postdoctoral (1963-64), Cornell University
Contact
Email: shin at unr.nevada.edu (preferred)
Phone: 775-784-6684
Fax: 775-784-6804
BGen. Edwin Howard Simmons, USMC (Ret.)
Edwin Simmons served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1942 to 1978, when he retired as brigadier general after having earned numerous personal decorations for his service in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He is the former director of Marine Coprs History and Museums. A resident of Alexandria, Virginia, he is the author of several works of nonfiction, including The United States Marines: A History.
Contact
Publicist: Judy Heise
Phone: 410-295-1028
Email:
jheise at usni.org
Joel S. Wit
Joel S. Wit is a senior fellow with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He served for 15 years in the Department of State and was coordinator for the 1994 U.S.–North Korea Agreed Framework.
Contact
Publicity: Susan Soldavin, Publicity Manager; Jaime Fearer, Publicity & Exhibits Coordinator
Brookings Institution Press
Email: ssoldavin at brookings.edu; jfearer at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611; 202-536-3608
See also Daniel B. Poneman and Robert L. Gallucci, co-authors of Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis.
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